An Israeli army spokesperson said the soldiers were sent to raze the home of Misbah Abu Sbeih, a 39-year-old Palestinian who was killed by Israeli security forces after he carried out a drive-by shooting on a police station in East Jerusalem, leaving an Israeli woman and a police officer dead.

'Impunity is continuing'

"Impunity is continuing," he said, pointing to the case of Israel Shomer, an Israeli soldier who was acquitted after he shot dead 17-year-old Muhammad al-Kusbeh near a military checkpoint between Jerusalem and Ramallah in 2015.

According to the Israeli rights group Yesh Din's most recent statistics, only 3.5 percent of legal complaints about Israeli soldiers harming or killing Palestinians led to an indictment in 2014.

"We believe that the Israeli judicial system is not impartial when it comes to the rights of the Palestinians," Elayyan added.

"This system is part of the occupation enterprise in general. The goal of these so-called investigations is to shield perpetrators."

The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs documented the destruction of at least 986 Palestinian-owned structures between January and October of this year. At least 1,501 people were displaced during that period.

In addition to Syrian and Lebanese land, Israel has occupied the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, and the besieged Gaza Strip since the 1967 Middle East war.

More than half a million Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements - considered illegal under international law - throughout the West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to the Israeli rights group B'Tselem.

'No attention on their actions'

Ibrahim Abrash, a writer and political analyst, said the wars in Syria, Iraq and Yemen resulted in the international community paying little attention to Israel's killing of Palestinians and settlement expansions in 2016.

"Israel has it easy now with no attention on their actions," he told Al Jazeera.

"The Palestinian Authority's attempts to hold Israel accountable in the International Criminal Court have not produced results," he explained.